WATCH: Amazing meteor lights up night sky

Perth residents were blown away when they saw a bright light streak across the sky on August 28.

Perth Observatory said they'd had multiple reports of a large meteor flying through the sky, many people claiming it looked like a "fireball".

A manager at Perth's Gravity Discovery Centre said the light had all the tell-tale signs of a decent-sized meteor. A meteor is a trail of light, also called shooting star, that is created when a space rock enters the Earth's atmosphere and vaporises.